da Fingerprint

While looking for a da Vinci link for this post, I came across a gallery on the Discovery Channel Website. Included was this fingerprint from Leonardo. “The only biological trace of Leonardo.”

The Discovery site states, “forensic techniques have allowed Luigi Capasso, an anthropologist at Chieti University, to reconstruct an entire fingertip from the dozens of prints left by da Vinci on his notebooks, drawings, and paintings.”